Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recovered Italian Cyrenaica but lacked enough power to crush beseiged Tobruk; then lost Cyrenaica again to Auchinleck; finally, reinforced, overran the British army to push across Egypt to El Alamein. At that point only a decimated British army which had lost most of its equipment stood between Rommel and Cairo...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...
...TIME has been perhaps the biggest single importer into the U.S. of a better understanding of what is going on in other lands. And now that we are printing TIME each week on every continent-in Mexico City, in Bogota, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Honolulu, Manila, Sidney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo, Rome, Stockholm and soon Paris-we hope we are also taking our place as perhaps the most trusted exporter to other lands of a better understanding of America and the part America is trying to play on the world scene...
...Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King expressed Canada's feeling: it is "as if one of our very own had passed away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves us very poor indeed. .. . ." People's Man. Not Lincoln as a legend, nor Wilson, beyond his brief hour of triumph, had been known so well to the plain people of the earth. They felt they had lost...
When a report of Junker's lecture trickled through neutral countries to Cairo, archeologists began digging. Sure enough, they soon unearthed tomb writings definitely identifying the necropolis as Heliopolis' cemetery. Dr. Etienne Drioton, director of Egypt's Antiquities Service, last week reported that the diggers had already turned up valuable information about the city's Stone Age inhabitants. Digging continues...